Lightning Bolt price & price history

What Lightning Bolt costs today, what it cost before, and how commander players actually run it. Prices update daily.

Lightning Bolt price today

$0.84

€1.17

30 days +3.7%

as of 2026-11-09

All-time high
$1.45
All-time low
$0.25
1-year average
$0.68
Data since
2025-07-24

Lightning Bolt has traded between $0.25 and $1.45, averaging $0.68 over the past year. It appears in 61,940 of the commander decks we track.

Card details

Card text

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Type
Instant
Mana cost
{R}
Rarity
rare
Latest printing
Secret Lair Countdown
First printed
1993-08-05
Commander legality
Legal

Lightning Bolt in the deckdiver.app commander deck database

Decks running it
61,940

of 970,456 commander decks, 6.4%.

Median deck price
$393

most of those decks cost $101 to $3,476.

Median power level
6.4

runs 4.4 to 8.6 across those decks.

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Real decks that run Lightning Bolt

Pulled from the decks we index, with the stats we track for every one of them. The picks rotate weekly.

Budget build
$114
price
7.6
power
3.0
salt
Bracket 1 (Exhibition)
{R}midrange
More Magda decks
Typical build
$406
price
8.4
power
3.5
salt
Bracket 5 (cEDH)
{W}{U}{R}combo
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High-end build
$3,802
price
8.7
power
4.1
salt
Bracket 5 (cEDH)
{U}{R}midrange
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